Word: noon
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...come high noon tomorrow, the Crimson ruggers will put their unblemished 5-0 season record on the line in the title game of the New England Championships. An equally impressive Boston University squad is the only thing standing in the way of the ruggers' sixth victory and first title of the year...
...This is being done because of the U.S. preparations to site Pershing 2 and cruise missiles" in western Europe, the noon broadcast said...
Shortly past noon on Friday, the station began amusing listeners across the Caribbean with hot flashes about coups and countercoups. First came word that Prime Minister Maurice Bishop's security chief was under arrest for alleging that two Cabinet ministers had tried to over throw the government. But wait. Then the station announced that Bishop, 39, had been deposed by his Finance Minister, Bernard Coard, also 39. No, hold on. Now Coard was resigning so he could clear his name of the "vicious rumor" that he and his wife Phyllis had plotted to kill the Prime Minister...
...place and Baltimore's Harborplace, the Old Post Office is a zesty example of preserving an urban landmark in a fashion that not only revitalizes an area but pays its own way. Although it opened just last month, the center is already attracting crowds of office workers at noon, tourists throughout the day and curious suburbanites after dark. The project heralds even more. Once, regulations made it difficult for profitmaking vendors to sell so much as a candy bar on Government property. But in 1976 the Public Buildings Cooperative Use Act was passed to encourage commercial activities within public...
Ogden Nash wrote those lines in the 1930s, when people still looked up every time an airplane flew over, and a woman who wore pants was either an actress or an athlete. He could hardly have foreseen the day when, at high noon, two out of every five women passing the entrance of Henri Bendel's in Manhattan would be dressed in trousers. The fact that women's pants are a fact of life (45 million pairs will be sold in the U.S. this year) is a source of solid comfort to fabric manufacturers. But it is also...